I loved, loved, loved the video in that article. This might be the game that finally pulls me away from my year-long FFXIV obsession.

I'm with Gratch in the anticipation department, but unfortunately Dreamfall Chapters will be subject to the same rule I use for playing The Walking Dead and other episodic games: I can't play it until the whole package is released.

Sorry, Red Thread Games, but I just can't get into playing a small fraction of your game once every 4 - 6 months.

My willpower finally crumbled, and I grabbed Dreamfall Chapters yesterday. I needed a short game I could fit into the couple days before Dragon Age hits, and this fit the bill perfectly.

Just finished, took me a little over 4 hours. I'd give it an A+ for story, music, overall atmosphere, and voice work. The dual world it creates is fantastic, the characters are very well developed, the writing is excellent, and there's plenty of intrigue in the way they set up the next chapter (although the ending bit with the baby was really odd).

Unfortunately, it gets a D on the graphics and technical side. All sorts of graphic bugs, ranging from the "annoying, but liveable" to the "damn near makes it unplayable". Most of the issues seem to be with the lighting effects, which are an absolute disaster. Random lens flares, lights that stretch into thin lines across the screen, shadows that don't match the source at all, etc. I also experienced random frame-rate drops into the single digits, no matter what setting I used for the graphics. In addition to the bugs, the animation is incredibly clunky, there's not even an attempt at lip syncing (which is incredibly distracting in a narrative-driven game), there are low res and blocky textures, etc. etc. Graphics-wise, it feels like barely a minor upgrade from the original Dreamfall, and that game came out over 8 years ago.

As much as I enjoyed the story, I'd be very hard-pressed to recommend taking the plunge on this first chapter as-is. Hopefully they can get a few of the technical bugs ironed out before the next chapter comes out...that would go a long way towards making it more enjoyable.